Rice crisis and Southeast Asia

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President Bush Continues to Oppose Global Warming Solutions

CommonDreams.org
Background for President Bush’s Global Warming Speech
After squandering seven years, President Bush still refuses to respond to alarm bells. His strategy announced today is like trying to douse a 10-alarm fire with a garden hose—it is completely inadequate.” — Daniel J. Weiss, Senior Fellow and Director of Climate Strategy
In Saginaw, Michigan, on Sept. 29, 2000, [...]

Pakistan grapples with rising import bill, food shortage

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‘Food crisis no sudden emergence’

“The food crisis that the country is now witnessing is not a sudden emergence but a creation of deliberate policies and laws that have over a period of time practically taken away the country’s food security,” said Navdanya founder-director Vandana Shiva here on Wednesday, adding that “the Government cannot now wash its hands off the [...]

Brazil’s Lula: food riots are alert to fight poverty

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What is anti-globalisation?

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Stuffed and Starved: As Food Riots Break Out Across the Globe, Raj Patel Details “The Hidden Battle for the World Food System”

Democracy Now April 08, 2008
Global food prices have risen dramatically, adding a new level of danger to the crisis of world hunger. In Africa, food riots have swept across the continent, with recent protests in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mauritania and Senegal. In most of West Africa, the price of food has risen by [...]

Haiti: Food Crisis Sparks Anger and Despair

green, red and yellow-striped umbrella is all that keeps Hernite Joseph from the searing sun as she takes apart a frozen chicken with a screwdriver and places the small pieces into neat piles stacked three high.
“A long time ago, when things were good, I’d go to work and had enough food to feed my [...]

Fields of gold

Call it the revenge of Marie Antoinette. The French queen, who on being told that her subjects had no bread suggested they eat cake instead, has gone down in history as callous, unworldly and fully deserving of the guillotine. Last year, however, farmers in Pennsylvania began following her advice. Since standard animal feed had become [...]

Biofuels spark rainforest debate

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